A radio glitch Tuesday between the Phoenix Mars Lander and a Mars orbiter delayed the start of planned science experiments on the red planet. Mission leaders at the University of Arizona had hoped to ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- The idea of putting a man on the moon was a revolutionary proposal in 1961-- that ambitious goal was achieved in 1969. The last person to go to the moon was 46 years ago ...
A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...
Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets. These gouges, new experiments reveal, are carved by the explosive sublimation of dry ice, burrowing down the ...
Advances in synthetic biology, planetary engineering, and ultra-low-cost launch systems have dramatically altered how ...
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Mars may be tens of millions of kilometers away, but for planetary scientists, the most revealing rehearsal space sits in the North Atlantic. Iceland’s mix of ice, fire and wind offers a rare ...